Summary:
The KIPP Minnesota Charter School district is made up of two charter schools serving a combined 231 students in grades K–8 at 5034 Oliver Ave N in Minneapolis: KIPP North Star Primary (elementary, grades K–4, 124 students) and KIPP North Star Academy (middle, grades 5–8, 107 students), with no high school in the network.
Neither school is close to state averages, but they differ from each other. The middle school is comparatively stronger in reading: 13.9% all-grade reading versus 11.4% at the primary, and its 6th-grade reading result of 20.7% is the highest single score in the data, while its 7th-grade math result of 10% is the highest grade-level math result. The middle school also ranks better — 520 out of 546 (5th percentile) in 2025–2026 — while the primary ranked 867 out of 869 (0 percentile) that year and 881 out of 881 in 2023–2024. The primary has a smaller student-teacher ratio, 9.5 versus 15.5, and marginally higher all-grade math, 4.5% versus 4.0%.
Against Minnesota, the gaps are large: all-grade math is roughly 4–4.5% versus the state's 44.9%, reading 11.4–13.9% versus 48.6%, and middle-school science 2.1% versus 25.5%. Several grade and subject results are 0%, including primary 4th-grade math, middle-school 5th-grade science, and middle-school 8th-grade math. Year-over-year results are mixed: the primary gained 5.02 points in reading but lost 3.83 points in math, while the middle school gained 3.03 points in math but lost 4.91 points in reading and 4.57 points in science. Both schools report 0 stars, and 91.13% of primary students and 94.39% of middle-school students qualify for free or reduced lunch. The clearest priorities are math at both schools and science at the middle school.
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